Implementing other result formats

If you are looking to implement a new machine or human readable output format, you can refer to avocado.plugins.xunit and use it as a starting point.

If your result is something that is produced at once, based on the complete job outcome, you should create a new class that inherits from avocado.core.plugin_interfaces.Result and implements the avocado.core.plugin_interfaces.Result.render() method.

But, if your result implementation is something that outputs information live before/during/after tests, then the avocado.core.plugin_interfaces.ResultEvents interface is the one to look at. It will require you to implement the methods that will perform actions (write to a file/stream) for each of the defined events on a Job and test execution.

You can take a look at Plugins for more information on how to write a plugin that will activate and execute the new result format.